ADVENT 2016 // COMPETING NARRATIVES

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long. As we finished up the book of Obadiah this...

Mercy triumphs over judgment

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. | James 2.12-13 I have been sitting in this phrase for the last few weeks (maybe months): mercy...

A quiet desperation

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. | Henry David Thoreau In the book Walden, Thoreau makes this observation about people and their ‘quiet desperation.’ By this, he means that all people have...

Do I NEED the church?

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial. God hates this wishful dreaming...

Beards and Flannel

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who...